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n More Indian children are in school today than ever before, but the quality of public schools has sunk to abysmally low levels, as government schools have become the reserve of children at the very bottom of Indias social ladder...

Focus: India's education needs reforms

India's education sector has grown to enormous proportions. With more than 1.5 million schools.

24 Jan 2018 3:41 AM IST

Meditation is the only method to sharpen the intellect or buddhi.

Mystic Mantra: Blissfulness beyond bounds

Spirituality does not belong to the physical realm.

24 Jan 2018 12:47 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Three crises in a search of a narrative

Three crises haunted 2017 and we lack even a discourse, a language for dialogue.

24 Jan 2018 12:45 AM IST

Talking to reporters here CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said after the note ban was announced, the agency managed to expose Rs 396 crore of alleged slush funds in 84 cases registered by it relating to illicit currency exchange that took place after the move.

Retrofit: CBI - From caged parrot to drain inspector?

Repeatedly, it has been found to fall short of going for the kill, and unable to get convictions in big-bang cases.

24 Jan 2018 12:43 AM IST

Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliyas Dargah in New Delhi

Mystic Mantra: Sima'a - Listen to language of love

Sufi music or sima'a is a universal language of love and harmony.

23 Jan 2018 12:37 AM IST

The Indian Army had last month made its first-ever military intervention of sorts on behalf of Bhutan by physically blocking Chinese troops from constructing a road in the Bhutanese Doklam area border territory near Indian border defences. (Representational image) .

Behind China's push: Land, water, fuel issues

Doklam and the Sino-Indian frontier are irritants and eyesores to Chinese leaders.

23 Jan 2018 12:34 AM IST

The incident caught in a video camera had gone viral later, causing acute embarrassment to him.

Reporters' Diary: Kabhi Gussa, Kabhi Pyar'

The transformation noticed in him at Babai was truly amazing, a member of the delegation observed.

22 Jan 2018 12:27 AM IST

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Photo: purusha.org)

London Diary: Of the Beatles, an ashram in Rishikesh and would-be...

It is now 50 years since the Beatles came to Rishikesh to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram.

22 Jan 2018 12:21 AM IST

Apparently, there are only five IAS officers of the Chhattisgarh cadre in the capital, though the states quota is 31 officers.

Dilli Ka Babu: Rise of the non-IAS babus

The most recent example is the naming of 10 new joint secretaries last month, of which five are from the non-IAS...

21 Jan 2018 1:30 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Insanitation is national crisis, not littering

In the introductory note Mr Modi uses the words clean, cleanliness, litter and littering 21 times.

21 Jan 2018 1:26 AM IST

Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Sunday Interview: Haryana Govt has lost the trust of people, CM must...

The principal Opposition, the Congress Party, is up in arms and has demanded the removal of the state chief minister...

21 Jan 2018 1:24 AM IST

To view spirituality as some sort of an exotic, other-worldly pursuit, is to completely miss the point. It is a way of seeing things radically differently from what we have been used to.

Mystic Mantra: The daily life of dojo

Much of Zen's appeal stems from its uncompromising view of the whole man.

20 Jan 2018 12:38 AM IST